What "rest"? Becket & Ryan? She was annoyed and uneasy (both logical for her), and Ryan just seemed to be trying to ignore the cameras as much as possible and get on with his work. I don't think he acted much different than usual.

Gates, on the other hand, did act like an idiot trying to make the department look good.

Exactly.

By "the rest" I meant the rest of Gates' actions. Or as someone said: "Gates, on the other hand, did act like an idiot trying to make the department look good." I could see her trying to make the department look good, but how she did it was totally unconvincing. She was the most our of character, for me.

I don't recall ANY scenes where the characters didn't seem to be aware that they were being filmed. Even when it wasn't full-on shakey-cam, things were oddly cropped as though they were cramped and people were acting as though everything were "on the record". I'm in the crowd that thinks that ever bit was supposed to be part of the "documentary" footage.

Didn't care for this episode or the one that followed it yesterday (Nov. 19). I don't think it's because Castle and Beckett are now together, I think it's because the writers are getting sloppy in general. The show's lost a certain zip to it.